Scotch And Soda (Featuring
Pastor McPurvis) - Auld Lang Syne
Scotch and Soda, Pastor McPurvis, and
the entire staff of vinylorphanage.com wish
all the citizens of Earth a happy and prosperous
New Year.
The Slate Pipe Banjo Draggers with
Criadero en Seres - Old Long Sin
'Old Long Sin' was constructed by The Slate
Pipe Banjo Draggers from samples of the traditional
Auld Lang Syne song which have been twisted
and shaped into drones, beats, rhythms and noise
to form the musical side of the new 'Old Long
Sin' track. Criadero en Seres provided the vocal
tracks and whose words are taken from the original
lyrics, changed slightly and then translated
into Spanish. These new lyrics have been sung,
spoken, shouted and whispered by different people
in the Criadero en Seres collective. They have
then been further chopped up and processed and
added into the mix to complete the track. Enjoy...
R. Stevie Moore Singers - Yecch to
Auld Lang Syne
Recorded acapella Tuesday December 31, 1975
at 226 Chapel Avenue, Nashville TN on THC.
Gimp Nipples - Awldlngsine
Music for all the other insomniac shut-in masochists
currently flagellating themselves with a rubber
glove tied to a stick. Thanks for listening,
I hope it hurts.
The Ronnie Wibbley Disco Machine
Recorded live at North London's majestic "Slappers"
nightspot, this New Year treat features band
members Hammer Malone, Pablo and Manolita, with
introduction by DJ Nappyhead. Ronnie's plangent
ukulele has never sounded as sweet and fitting
as on this traditional Scottish ballad of lost
love and regret.
The Mountebanks - ALS (saudade)
The Mountebanks chosen for this recording were:
Special K, Mitzi Machiavel, Ferro, Anabela Rocha,
Ceefax, Mupps, 97, Amy Pascoe and Joaquim Toledo.
BROS II - Abchied Bruder (Happy Little
Auld Lang Syne)
I first heared "Nehmt Abschied
Bruder Ungewi" when I was a small boy and
in my imagination it became a German traditional
folksong. Then I realised it's not. Still I
paste the German lyrics in what we like to call
our happy little version of "Auld Lang
Syne". Black Angus, who bestows my song
his canto is known as the german Bon Jovi, though
maintaining a different political attitude and
very different anyway. In Cologne it is winter
at New Years Eve, thus I decided my version
of the song must be a summerly one, banishing
the ghosts of winter. In its gradient the song
is constantly striding away from the burlesque
reference to the original, pulling out into
an electrisized break, featuring Julia Pfeiffers
spoken word apearance, slightly returning to
the hook line and ending in an electronic loop.
Black Angus' singing features the first and
third verse plus the chorus of the lyrics written
by Claus Ludwig Laue on the "Auld Lang
Syne" melody in 1946. Translated to English
they say: Verse 1: Farewell brothers, insecure
is all recurrence, the future is obfuscatory
and burdens our hearts; chorus: The heavens
vault above the land, farewell, so long, all
of us embeded in God’s hand, farewell,
so long; Verse 3: That way in every ouset, the
ends no far away, we come here and we go there,
and with us time goes bye.
Emerson Dameron & Jeff Disler -
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
That's Emerson's voice over Jeff's
track.
Kaffeinik - The Auld Lang Syne Hop
The samples for the tune were taken
from the Ayrshire
Fiddle Orchestra, who gave written permission
for the use of the samples.
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Another New Year's Eve is upon us, a time to reflect
on all that has happened in the previous year and
to wonder about events yet to come in 2006. New Year's
Eve is celebrated in so many ways around the world,
it is truly a global time of reflection and anticipation.
Here at Comfortstand, we decided to celebrate the
changing of the year by asking artists from all over
the world to take the song most associated in people's
minds with New Years Eve (the old Scottish song 'Auld
Lang Syne'), and to provide their interpretations
of the tune. 
